Correcting investment account cash balance

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I have a Schwab brokerage account with checking that is represented in Quicken Windows as both an investment account and a bank account (linked checking account). When I check the holdings in the Quicken investment account, there is a substantial cash balance negative number when it should show zero. The correct amount of cash is shown in the linked checking account.

Two questions:

(1) How can I adjust the investment account cash balance to zero without throwing something else off?

(2) I think this setup of a brokerage account and linked checking account is a relic of an old version of Quicken. Newer versions just show this type of account as an investment account that can contain checking transactions. Is there a way to merge the old brokerage account and linked checking account? Or is there a way to just have one account going forward without trying to move decades of old transactions?

Thanks for your help.

Tom Young

I take it that you really do have a "linked" situation at Schwab, where all cash is always shown in the checking account and never in the brokerage account? It sounds like you signaled that situation to Quicken when you set up the brokerage Account:

In this situation all transactions in the Investment Account that have cash associated with them are changed from their "ordinary" Action, e.g., a Div Action now becomes a DivX Action and the cash never appears in the Investment Account.

So if you did set the Investment Account as "linked" how has this "negative cash" situation arisen?

You could get rid of the negative cash in the Investment Account with a self-referential Transfer of cash "into" the Account, (you use the name of the brokerage Account as the "sending" Account in the Category box) but I have a feeling that might be permanent. Do you have any Placeholders in that Account?